Rap Music

Introduction:
Rap music is not all the same but well written rap does have a redeeming grace. Rap music is all about the presentation reaching the audience and getting the point across. Rap music is the more accessible, friendlier, livelier, party aspect to hip-hop music.

Music:
Rap music is a genre of rhythm and blues music that consists of rhythmic vocals declaimed over musical accompaniment. Music on early rap records sounded like the black music of the day, which was heavy funk or more than often disco music. Music has been around for centuries but probably the music that has the greatest influence on people, young and old, has to be the rap/hip-hop industry.

Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad that they hope will soon "fade away." Hip hop has historically provided a voice for the silenced minorities and these roots have allowed for its rhythmic flows to transgress many nations' borders, providing a global musical outlet for the marginalized.

Rap:
Rap music and hip hop, with their particular emphasis on sex and demeaning depictions of women, were blamed for encouraging early sexual behavior, leading to the spread of disease and underage pregnancies.

Rap pioneer KRS-One, who just released Hip Hop Lives with fellow legend Marley Marl, offers a blunt explanation: Rap's early stars, from Grandmaster Flash to Public Enemy and LL Cool J, "touched on humor, politics, ghetto life and realities they faced."

Rap music is not all the same but well written rap does have a redeeming grace. Rap has influenced many forms of popular culture, particularly film, and has been increasingly incorporated into pop music.

Conclusion:
Rap music is a rapidly growing type of music. I find it very ironic that even though rap music is a billion dollar a year business that both black and white local radio stations are still reluctant to play for fear of loosing advertisers.

In my opinion, rap music is truly an American minority creation which deserves more credit and recognition as an art form rather than as a fad which should just fade away with time.